She was an incredible influence. She taught us to be proud of our culture and heritage. Growing up not only as an ethnic minority, but also a religious minority required a great deal of strength in a small southern City of India!
My mom was a stay at home mom, but she always encouraged my sisters and me to get an excellent education and have a career. She taught us to be independent and to stand on our own feet. She also impressed upon us that being a mother was the most important job that we’d ever have, but if the need ever arises, we should be prepared to stand on our own.
My mom and I were very close when I was growing up. She didn’t like that I choose defense as a career – she wanted me to be a engineer like my father and my sister and everyone else they knew that. That’s all she knew. I entertained the idea of becoming a doctor for a short while, but I knew that wasn’t what I wanted to do. So it took her and my dad a while to warm up to the idea. But now, they like having family members in different professions! They found that Visual arts wasn’t really all that bad, and now they are very happy about my decision (specially My sister)
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